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The seventeen-year-old bay gelding reminds us
once again, how lucky we are to have such a large
Thoroughbred industry in Australia. Jamaimo was
born at Emirates Park, by the Irish stallion, Urgent Request,
out of an imported British mare by Bustino. Christened
Hurried Plea, the horse does not seem to have had a race
start, before he came to Will Enzinger to event, and thence
to Christopher.
The trot work is really impressive, but once Christopher
starts asking for those ever-so-exciting flying changes, the
act falls apart - they finish on a score of 60.3 and Jamaimo's
chances of retiring in a blaze of glory would seem to
be blown.
At least half of Christopher's test looked respectable, but
they are followed by a series of tests, so badly ridden that
you wonder how on earth the combinations ever made it
through to four-star! The poor horses are not helped by
riders with pram hands bouncing up and down, thanks to
locked elbows, and tight arses as they bounce away in the
middle of the poor creature's back. A month or two of lunge
sessions would seem in order for most of them.
The ground jury of American Wayne Quarles, Denmark's
Christina Klingspor and France's Alain James is having its
own little melt down. They just cannot agree on what is, or
is not, a late change, and the scores range from 4 to 6.5 for
the same movement while the individual judges swing from
missing late ones, to penalizing clean ones. Go figure.
In amongst the awful tests, there are some nice ones.
British veteran, Tina Cook looks stylish on Calvino II
(Carousel / Rock King) branded Anglo European, and an
interesting mix. The sire, Carousel, is straight Holsteiner,
by Caretino, while the dam is a Thoroughbred (although
with one dodgy Non Stud Book line on the bottom) by
that prolific sire of eventers Just a Monarch. At last some
elegantly effective riding... 48.8, although she finishes the
day in first place on the American judge's card.
Laura Collett's handsome Hanoverian, Pamero is by Eva
Bitter's showjumping star, Perigueux and out of a mare with
more solid showjumping blood: by the Ramiro son, Rituel,
out of a mare by Don Carlos. Finally the progressive score
gets below 40, but only briefly, some tortured counter canter
and they end on 45.9 to briefly take the lead.
It is drizzling rain as Michael Jung enters the arena on a
fischerRocana FST (by the Thoroughbred, Ituango out of an
Oldenburg mare of solid jumping breeding - by Carismo, a
grand-son of Cor de la Bryère out of a grand-daughter of
Sandro). fischerRocana has decided to test Michi's magical
powers, she is against the bit for most of the test, but the
magician is not to be denied. They get the job done to take
the lead on 43.8, but it is perhaps not a test that will feature
on Michael's 'best of ' compilation.
By now the rain has started in earnest and I have
interviews in the press tent with the dynamic duo of the
French eventing team, Michel Asseray and Thierry Touzaint.
I don't think I missed much.
The tests on the second day look significantly better than
the first. Sonja's Illicit Liaison is a bright, forward sort of
chap, but alas Sonja is one of the bouncing hands brigade
and the Thoroughbred gelding (Made of Gold xx / Luskin
Star xx) looks a bit short and tight in front. The canter
work is better, even the judges can agree that the changes
are clean, and they finish on 50.5, just out of the top ten at
this stage.
Christopher Burton and TS Jamaimo -
looking great in the trot work, then...
Michael Jung and fischerRocana
- the mare was a little on the muscle